Holland, Dawn - National Institute of Economic and Social Research - 2008

this special issue of the National Institute EconomicReview, we have brought together five papers that address some of … pose a set of economic issues that are specific to the NMS and set them apart from the other European Union members. In … minimising the short-term disruption to the NMS economies. The paper by Balâ€¡zs Æ’gert in this Review focuses on nominal …

European Countries. World Bank EconomicReview 11,
471-90.
Holland, Dawn N., Sass, Magdolna, Benàcek, Vladimir, Gronicki … Institute of Economic and Social Research
Abstract
This paper explores the link between foreign direct investment and trade in … a panel of
four countries that will accede to the European Union in 2004: Poland, Hungary, the
Czech Republic and …

Transition:
Prospects and Policies for Economies in Transition
This paper surveys work on the economic prospects for the … Central and Eastern Europe would experience high rates of sustained economic growth,
with rapid convergence towards the living … conditions explain much less of the cross-sectional
cross-country variation in economic growth after 1973. There is also evidence …

the timing of transition to EMU on the
core accession countries.
*National Institute of Economic and Social … Research
**Czech National Bank
e-mail: dholland@niesr.ac.uk, rbarrell@niesr.ac.uk, Katerina.Smidkova@cnb.cz
This research … Commission or the
Czech National Bank.
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I. Introduction
This paper considers two important issues facing the EU candidate …

cent per annum. Once economic growth
resumed, oil demand in the Czech Republic and in Poland began to increase, while oil ….2 -0.1 2.8 2.9 2.8 2.9
Source: National Institute EconomicReview January 2002, page 99.
The VAR based studies … economic instability over the last 30
years, have been rising in recent months. We argue that the inflationary consequences of …

Velde 1
National Institute of Economic and Social Research
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Smith Square
London SW1P 3HE
October 1999 …
Abstract:
The convergence of labour productivity within an economic area
involves the closing of organisation, idea and object … significantly between countries, even within a common economic
area such as the European Union. These differences are the result of …

Garry Young
National Institute of Economic and Social Research
2 Dean Trench Street, Smith Square
London SW1P 3HE
E-mail: r … Employment, and the Royal Economic Society conference
at St. Andrews for comments on this work. We are also grateful for the ….
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See OECD Economic Surveys for details of individual country reforms.
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The NDYP is targeted at young people whose …

. I am also grateful to the ESRC
for financial support (grant number L138251022).
National Institute of Economic and … experienced considerable social and economic disruption
during the financial turmoil in emerging markets in 1997 and 1998, casting … pre-requisite for improved
economic performance by developing countries. Opening up to international trade and
reducing …